#!process Tiktok offer
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USDS
do u speak chinese
what questions did they ask
naw
25 hrs
resume shi and projects
preesh
holy shit that short
what abt for 2 second round
i feel like rip me im boutta get ghosted
it did not go well
my interviewer did not know english so my entire interview was in chinese
😭
wym
like gap between 1st and second rd?
i wouldnt stress too much about timeline
i did my OA september 11th, got interview invite march 11th
6 months later
after that tho it moved decently fast, had to reschedule a bit but was overall ast
yup
how long did it take to hear back after 1st round
uhh three days i think
what team
their lark platform was hella weird lol
Mine said two rounds
Did u speak chinese
Yea i think u do u listening to chinese songs on spotify
Anyone know how lark works i tried to practice but i have to pay for an enterprise acc to start a meeting💀
yes i speak chinese
but im not that good at tehcnical terms
so it was so bs i had to do it in chinese
broken ass english
Is it that bad
How do non chinese ppl do it then
he said
Wtf
"can we start the interview now"
like in a broken ass english
took ghim like 20 seconds to say it
bro idk
they mostly hire chinese people
And he just spoke to u in chinese for the rest of it??
you just gotta get lucky with people that speak english fluently
Did he like paste the question in english or smth
well i explained one project in english
and i was like
aight bro u wanna talk in chinese
i can speak chinee
😭
BRO THE TECHNICAL
he gave me 6 words
Depth First Search. No recursion. Tree
exact words
Theres no phyiscal problem to loook at ??
So u just had to implement that?
wtf
What were ur interviewer initials im scared
GG
Oh ok
Mines like LXH
yea bro
jm scared
No
then its an old ass mf
Nothing on google
in his liek 40 or something
so that means he DEFINITELY doesnt speak english well
😭
what team is this
Is it in coderpad at least
idk what they use
on lark
they have their own shit
a coding challenege shit
so its just on LARK
MSP
icic
Thanks💀💀
r u bytedance or tiktok?
Bro so its just they open a coderpad thing in lark, say 6 words, then ask u to code?
ye
Tiktok
Video Experience Software Engineer Intern (Global StreamingMedia) - 2025 Summer/Fall (BS/MS)
mine is this
💀
he also made me code in c++
Wtf
The role says python i thought
ye it says python and then he goes like we mostly use C++
Bro no way this is a universal tiktok interview experience
How does anyone get hired
it happened to a lot of people
like if u search up tiktok on reddit
in csmajors/leetcode
💀
Im cooked
idk how he in san jose with a broken ass english
If thats san jose english then whats china english
maybe they studied english well when they were in china
uyeah bro sorry :(
did your recruiter give u any help
cuz my recruiter gave me no help
I dont think the recruiting team is at all in contact with the interviewers bc my recruiter is good at english and had linekdin
thanks bro :(
Wait thats what i got
bro initials?
lol we have the same recruiter 😭
Maybe he only throws his ppl to chinese interviewers
hes a bytedance recruiter for tiktok
so im assuming you applied to the role on bytedance?
I applied thru tiktok
ah
dammit
i was praying that wasnt the case cuz my tiktok app is up
hoping he dont get me again 😭
So i have to pray
Interviewer knows english
Not in c++
He pastes a question so i can understand
yes
make sure to review cs fundamentals
my interviewer asked me
difference between
int (*p)[10
and int *p [10]
or something liek that
like with the *
good luck
what did you have on your resume and what projects?
Hey guys i think i have the same recruiter too. Lol. How many days did it take to hear back after the first round ?
2x f500 2 startups and 2 simple ml projects
hmm i see
did you yourself establish that startup or were you just a founding member?
idk i have not heard back yet
Okay. Are you done with the first round?
Yeah
Yeah
man hell naw i just joined as a dumbass intern lmaoo
Did u also have a Chinese technical interviewer
Yes
Oh shoot do u know how to speak chinese
Can i dm u
Lol no 🙂
Yes
Am i cooked i cant either
How did it go 😭
Not yet, its at 2 am Wednesday 💀
Was it just one technical for swe roles
Everything so RNG
Ohh i meant like in ur 1 hr timeslot did u only have one technical
oh
i guess code wise
but hella cs fundamental shit
and I showed him my project code as well
lol
They go through ur entire resume
Holy hell
no it should be fine
Like 2 hrs past midnight, yea…
i think i got ghosted lmfao
pls lead us to. the promise land
why what happened
did u email SRK
gonna email him tmrw
praying
Same for me too 🥺
Which team?
Let me know if you get any updates
Ads
He said to wait for a week for next steps
Why?? Did the recruiter say anything?
Tiktok
Oh no I did have some communication issues too plus i can’t speak a single word of Chinese 🙂
Yess what about you?
Mine too
TikTok so stupid if they can’t find fluent English people to interview
There is hope
Okay
Same SRK
damn
Malasiyan guy
did he ever help u lol
like I asked him what it was gonna be
And he didn’t help at all basically
He does reply for scheduling and stuff i asked for extension
Shit what did he say?
Mmm ok
How was ur interview?
He was like it could be behavorial or technical or a mix of both or basically anything
😭
It was good technically but there was a communication gap plus my internet was too bad on that day 😭
tiktok making me racist against my own race I’m ngl
Basically prepare for everything 🙂
How was your interview?
All the best👍🏻
That I have no clue
Shit
Technical wise he gave me a problem with 6 words in it
Depth first search. No recursion. Tree
😭
🙂🙂🙂 hope so it turns out good 🤞
Yeah
Will let u know
It’s morning over there
so maybe shit will get processed tonight
😭
hopefully it works out
Was it technical screen or final round ?
did you have to run your own test cases in LARK
technical
yeah i had to write my own test cases
are you guys applying for swe or frontend?
did yall hear anything yet Kroccky and polo
swe
how should i practice this
nah recruiter asleep lol
no nothing 😦
Did u folow up?
Not yet
did u guys ever get like an interview feedback survey
I did
Ye
Within like 24 hrs of ur interview?
Nah tmr
Preciate it
Nah, i talked to my friend who works there,
Said it’s like, when u receive a feedback survey, it’s when ur interviewer submitted feedback to HR,
Then hr has to send the next steps to you
Some recruiters are lazy and send them all at once, some send it right away
Huh
So maybe SRK is lazier or has a lot of feedbacks and pushes them out all at once
So i think since u and polo got SRK, you’ll hear back same time if he likes to wait til he has a lot of interview feedbacks
Im not sure, that’s what he said and he’s been there a year
Hmm lemme see the times
But he isnt too sure with how international recruiters are
It may be that the feedback survey is auto generated, but it might be whenever ur feedback is finalized, it’s jist up to recruiter to move along next steps
1 day after
Oh GGs bro
I got rejected then lol
there’s no way they move me on to the next round within 3 hours
😭
Idk if it’s rejected, seems like SRK has a lot of feedbacks to hand back so he might just do them all at once
Yeah everyone I’ve talked to has SRK
😭
What does this mean we are rejected? 😭
No it doesn’t
No it just means it’s on SRK’s plate and he hasnt done anything yet
he just means that a “decision” was made
I dont think anyone has gotten feedback yet
or the interviewer submitted feedback to HR
Damn
W inside info
Still think I got rejected tho😭
Did u have to like create ur own main function and write ur inputs in there and call ur own function
Damn bro this company so lazu
But I heard
Other people interviews
Are straight out of leetcode
And have test cases u can just run
It’s just RNG
It’s so team dependent is what i heard
Yup
Did they ask u like domain questions too
What r domain questions
I forgot what u applied to
Like which packages to use, etc just random trivia or sum
Video team
Or whatever
Bro yes
He was like
How do u create something in ffmpeg
Whats ffmpeg
💀💀
Damn they do their research on you
And in my current internship im literally playing with ffmpeg
If only I did this earlier
😭
Yea
They walked thru my ENTIRE resume
“How did u improve responsiveness…”
Etc
So make sure u know ur resume rly well
I screen shared my code for ffmpeg
Did u only have 1 tech question then
Cuz I forgot what I wrote
Ye that stupid depth first search question
Ohh u were the no instructions just dfs
I dont think theres a way to study for tiktok tbh it’s so random
Yup that was me
😔
U have American interviewer = easy pass because it’s likely gonna be like 2 leetcode questions
and they’re more chill
😭
They dont have many american interviewers left💀💀
He said a lot of people at tiktok are definitely side interviewing
Ye everyone left lol
Were u just switching between two languages the whole time
bro yes
I stuttered so much because of it
cuz I would try to say it in Chinese and idk how to say it so I switch back to English
😭
Do they expect like tech jargon in chinese
Maybe not sure
Or like do they understand like dfs or variable/recursion/hashmap
I told him I ain’t familiar w tech stuff in Chinese
And he was like
Ok
With the Chinesest accent ever
I lowkey gotta have google translate on the side is that alowed
Did u share ur screen the wholetime can u show him like english
Just like type it in to the english side of the google tranate
No share screen
I only share screened my project code
I wish i can only like say the stuff from like the speed streams those fire as hell💀💀
idk tbh
probably have them all over the place
and they all get worked like slaves probably
tbh chinese tech vs american tech is crazy
like chinese tech is lik e200% harder to get in if u dont have connections
and u get paid like shit
and u get worked like hell
and then u get fired
HAHAHHAHA
That’s why when they come to america tho they become like L6 at amazon
My amazon interviewer was some cracked chinese boss with 13 yoe
yea they dominate here
I mean in china they do too they like build whole LLMs in their freetime
ye theyre all cracked af
it just sucks that theyre in china
lmfao
oh yeah def
so many indian managers
at amazon
my white mangaer switched
to an indian manager
:(
You’ll prob have a chinese manager at tiktok
💀💀i hope SRK pulls thru for all of us
No summer
icic
Ohh are yall fall?
Maybe thats why he slower
Cause he’s handling me and some Summer interns ig? He told us whole process will be over in the next 2 weeks
im summer but still not yet get the response
did u alr interview and are waiting on fedback?
yes i did the first one last week
I am summer
Did anyone follow up and get any response?
was ur recruiter initials srk
yeah lol
holy
thats really soon
makes sense tho its already april
Oh shoot, was it good or bad if u dont mind me asking
Ohh when did you have your first round?
a week ago
What team are you
Damn , i hope it’s just cause that man is working on like 800 applications rn he seems too nice to ghost:(
Also maybe since ur fall
Anyone Interviewed for Security Position ?
yeah Swe Intern(Security)
Srk probably ghosts if you don’t pass 😭
Did u interview w tiktok yet and hearback from srk?
I haven’t heard back but I only interviewed Monday
Was ur interviewer chinese
Yeah 😭
Business integrity
yeah tbh
cuz he has too much people
i doubt he has time to send out rejections lpol
our boy is working OT durign weekends :(
my status on application portal has a bad update 😭 😭.
anyone got an update on the portal?
Completed?
Ended?
Ended
😭
I’m sorry to hear that polo
my interview went well idk ...
You’ll be good wherever you keep going, tiktok is so random and hard for no reason
R u Chinese per chance
are they expecting chinese speaking people
Yes
Did u solve ur question optimally?
That’s why
no im not
Unironically tho, the OP of this thread isnt even chinese and united us all here
yes i did but i did have some internet problems that could be the reason
He got American interviewers
But if have Chinese interviewers
Def need to be Chinese
is it showing interviewing for you all?
Ye
Is there way to request the interviewer to be american
But I’ll probably be ended soon
I mean yes, but bc i havent done it yet
Im the 2 am guy remember
It’s in 10 hrs for me
I just hope they send the rejection mail at least lol
Do u know anyone that moved on?
SRK :(
aren't you done with first round?
No he’s rescheduled 2 times
noo
Damn bruh SRK the gatekeeper
ohh all the best! I hope it goes well for you!
Did u know how to say like linkedlist or BFS in chinese @narrow idol
Oh wow
Thank you polo, i hope you find success wherever u go
Wasnt yrs in hackkerrank
yess i ran all 4 testcases and they passed 😭
I wish u the best polo
Honestly tiktok is so much luck
And like 90% havs to be Chinese
Very dumb
thanks everyone hope you all get in
yeah probably its the chinese thing
This is insane, im lowkey gonna try to larp as chinese then
Definitely
Im asian and know like adjacent languages, i might learn some terms💀
Ye
Try and learn like simple talkings
Do it in the end of the interview
Talk to him I. Chinese
Like say hru etc
Lol
Damn bro tiktok interview requires duolingo + leetcode
😂😂😂
Was yalls interview a young person or older
Old
If it was young then that’s hella good
Cuz then they probably went to school in the US
mine was young but his linkedin profile was fully written in chinese 🙂
how many intervirws did yall have for swe? was it 1 or 2
i just got a invite from SRK rn
I had some old guy initials were LX
Lxh?
Nah it was just first name L and last name X
hello, is there anyone here interviewing for the bellevue location?
@fair steppe good luck bro
😭😭
thanks
How was it
ngmi
it's so hard
my question was in chinese bro
she had to read it out loud in english
Bro wtf
and i had to like write down what the question was in english
That’s fucking crazy
i think their test bank is all chinese
i couldnt find it on leetcode
but there's like a similar version of it
i didnt even solve it
the leetcode version of it is medium... i shouldve been able to do it
just so confusing to understand the translating parameters and shi
That’s so dumb
I don’t understand how they don’t have an English question
Prepared
When they know the role is at the US
to english
or whatever they use since gogle is banned
she like said wait a sec
then pasted it in chat in english
the lark CHAt
im def a fail tho, no working code, no test cases
i need some meta glasses or sum to have live translation
did ur code work at least
bro i thinnk ur the chosen one
Well bro ngl I had an easy ass question lol
ur also FALL so its like low priority they are so behind
nah man i had an easy quesstion too
:(
i lowkey cooked like i knew to convert to string and sort the parameters like i knew that intuitively
it was just a skill + language issue
Bro yeah :(
i couldnt figure out a good recursive call, and i think i was trying to not use hints
Holy we both get it
Awwww
Oh
Shit
Bro
U should’ve went like
小姐姐
可以要你的微信吗
😘
rizz her up
HAHAHAHAH
My interviewer didn’t say anything
He said “well, the interview now is over”
and then gave me a hand wave
😔
bad as in like
she’s bad 😳
or bad 😒
what sort of questions did he ask u?
rejected @narrow idol @gloomy gull 💔
i got a survey request, checked my portal, and it said ended
at least they responded fast, all within 10 hours
bro 😭
bro krockky gotta be the chosen one
shit they should have given us american interviewers
yea, it's a one of a kind experience
All the best for you internship search!!
when i saw the leetcode question in chinese i turned into the closed eye dog meme
you too
haha
glad I was able to go thru this process with u two
yeah truee we hope krockky gets in
So hm maybe survey requests are actually a decision is made?
its the third day he ghosting me 😭
Lowkey that means you still in the running
I think maybe since ur fall your rounds are staggered further apart
anyone get initials lm
Idk I hope :(
But SRKcan totally email me tho
and say team is still deciding
😭
I got an email from bytedance saying I’m rejected
😔
ni hao ma fellas
im sure we all gmi
gl to everybody
and to those still in process i would like to provide some advice that i have previously mentioned
haha
Congratulations!
When did you hear back after the second round and which team is this offer for?
like literally the next day 25 hours later and then the team i lowkey dont know but its something with USDS and data platform
rip ur dms brotha
bro 780 messages in this thread and then like infinite dms
how is this possible
we gon make it out tho
lol im sorry bro
